mufti
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The mufti conspired with Iraqi soldiers to overthrow the pro-British Prince Regent Abd al-Ilah of Hejaz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
A similar appeal was issued by Dagestan's chief mufti.
From Reuters ● Oct. 29, 2023
When Italian bombers attacked Haifa and Tel Aviv, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem sent his congratulations to Mussolini.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2021
They talked to the camera, in mufti, in their homes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2020
What we knew, but the mufti did not, was that his own niece attended my father’s school in secret.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
“For example, different jurists and muftis will put forth various, sometimes conflicting fatwas. On which fatwa should the police or any other agents of the state rely when enforcing Islam?”
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2015
Muslim leaders, the muftis, have apparently worked out a kind of modus vivendi with the government; in exchange for being allowed to practice their religion they often support the government on major policy questions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Show the same regard to their muftis and imaums, as you have shown to the bishops and rabbins.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
He gave orders to gather together the interpreters of the law, the wise men, and the muftis, as well as the officers.
From Malayan Literature by Various
Oh, wake thee, my dearest! the muftis are still, And the tschocadars sleep on the Franguestan hill; No sullen aleikoum—no derveesh is here, And the mosques are all watching by lonely Kashmere!
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Richard Doyle
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Words Relating to Islam
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